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Volcel Police is funny but do remember, there is no “Gooner Epidemic” (www.tiktok.com)

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I hope we all know this and are just doing it as a bit, but sometimes I do see shit on this website that makes me go “Oh y’all are genuinely just weird prudes”

The “gooner epidemic” is not real, gooning is an incredibly niche kink that very few people engage in.

“Porn addiction” is basically non existent and affects such a small portion of the population as to not be relevant. The idea that most people have in their heads about porn addiction is propaganda made up by evangelicals.

We do not live in an overly-sexually-liberated time. There is not an excess of sexual content or exposure to it.

Most of the time when people talk about “the gooner problem” what they’re actually talking about is a mix of two unrelated things, people living normal sexually liberated lives, and undersocialized young men that don’t know how to interact with people.

Sex is good. We should be having more of it. We should encourage healthy, safe sex featuring whatever kinks you and your partner(s) consent to. Don’t fall for puritan propaganda comrades.

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[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don’t trust capitalist biomedical-industry aligned “studies” that directly cut against the lived experience of me and everyone I know. I know that vaccine gave my son autism.

I love anecdotal evidence! i-love-not-thinking

Actually that would be more valid than your claim, because some biomedical research is funded and operated by the biomedical industry, whereas research on the effects of pornography aren’t funded by the porn industry like, at all.

These are studies done by universities, which generally have a relatively conservative environment, and definitions agreed on by major health organizations including the WHO. The PhD student researching media ethics and writing her dissertation on the effects of pornography is not a secret stooge of the porn industry, and she’s far more knowledgeable on this topic than you are.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Your analogy is flawed because the people asserting vaccines cause autism have no viable mechanical explanation for why this is the case.

Ejaculation releases dopamine, and every single part of human life that entails dopamine release has associated addictions. Why porn would be an exception has not been explained. You are the one making the absurd claim with no mechanical explanation, not I. In fact, addiction has been documented in hundreds of different asinine and otherwise harmless activities, so the fact you can sit there saying “trust the experts Bro this one is different for some reason I can’t explain” isn’t very compelling when scientific consensus is that there’s even addiction to things like running or video games.

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

It's amazing how as soon as sex is involved hexbear will just say and upvote shit that could have been said by Phyllis Schlafly. This post is utter gabage, and complete nonsense. Your arguments for the plausibility and existence of wide spread porn addiction is that jacking off feels nice so there's a mechanism of addiction and you just sorta feel like there's a vibe. That's just... nothing, and in the process you have aligned yourself with the evangelical right using their exact argument.